Innocence Lost

Stephen King's The Stand needs to be made into a big-budget film. There was a decently made mini-series that included some notable actors. That version was even produced by King himself. However, the television medium doesn't allow the story to explore the haunting parts of King's vision of the end of the world. The mini-series also felt a little bland at times. The film may have lost Ben Affleck to his infamous run as Batman and may end up casting Christian Bale, but here's our fantasy casting for the film series.
Johnny Depp as Randall Flagg
Randall Flagg is charming, attractive, and can seduce people out of their souls. Yet, in the next moment beat them mercilessly to death or make them go mad with just a look. Depp has the good looks and the convincing darkness to portray an agent of the devil. His roles in films like Dark Shadows and Sweeney Todd show he can be dark and twisted while still maintaining his charm, humor, and sex appeal. He also created the definitive anti-hero in Jack Sparrow.
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Cicely Tyson as Mother Abigail
Mother Abigail is a 108-year-old woman, the oldest living human being, and a prophet of God. She becomes a lightning rod for all the good people left in the world to gather together. At 80 years old, Tyson just won a Tony for her role in The Trip to Bountiful. She is an amazing actress and her recent role in The Help has proven that nothing can stop her.
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Emma Stone as Frances Goldsmith
Frannie is pregnant and in her early twenties. As the flu strikes, she questions if she should keep the baby. She’s smart, funny, and attractive enough to get a bit of a love triangle going. Stone is attractive, quirky, and has already seen the apocalypse starring in Zombieland. While most of her films have been comedies, she did show her dramatic muscles in The Help. She also has shown she has the edge to potentially kick ass and it would be great to see her actually do it on screen.
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Matthew McConaughey as Stu Redman
Stu is affectionately known as East Texas. He is one of the first known survivors of the super flu. He plays a major part in the story and the survival of Mother Abigail's followers. When you think of Texas you think of McConaughey. His recent success and Oscar buzz with Dallas Buyer's Club show that the dramatic actor is back along with the comedian we remember from movies like Magic Mike. He has the right level of folksy charm that would encourage a community of survivors to rally behind him.
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Ryan Gosling as Larry Underwood
Larry Underwood is a sexy rockstar. He spends the bulk of the story with multiple women who want the best for him but sadly he disappoints them. Tons of women in America would love to see Gosling in this role. He has the huge fan following to be believable as a rock star. His role as a ne'er do well stunt driver in Drive and as a lothario in Crazy Stupid Love make him well suited for this role.
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Taylor Schilling as Nadine Cross
Nadine Cross is a former school teacher that meets Larry on the road. They connect and bond but she's a virgin and can't be with him. Who is she saving herself for ... who do you think? Randall Flagg. Schilling is huge right now given the success of Orange is the New Black. In the show, she's able to play a virginal innocence while still maintaining a slightly dark and twisted edge. After all, how pure can you be in prison?
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Nick Andros
Nick Andros is a deaf-mute that is introduced to the audience when he is savagely beaten. He becomes a major player in Mother Abigail's society despite being only able to communicate by writing notes. Levitt has the acting chops to breathe life into this challenging role. He has played off-beat characters in films like Hesher and Don John.
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Helen Mirren as Glen Bateman
Glen Bateman is a retired sociology professor that loves painting and Kojack the dog. In the book, Bateman is a man. However, given her success in the Red films, Mirren proves she is part of the boy's club. Also, the book is a little light on female characters so it would be great to have such a dynamic actor as Mirren in such a pivotal role. Bateman helps re-establish society in the post-flu community. Plus, in an alternate life, couldn't you imagine Mirren as a ballsy sociology professor. We can pretend Teaching Mrs. Tingle never happened.
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Jonah Hill as Harold Lauder
Harold Lauder is a chubby, know-it-all teenager with some pretty dark thoughts. Now, Hill isn't that chubby anymore, however he is really stretching into dramas. He also proved in 21 Jump Street that he can play a believable teenager, even if its a grown man playing a grown man pretending to be a teenager. He'd be great as this slightly homicidal genius that becomes obsessed with Frannie.
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John Cho as Lloyd Henreid
Lloyd Henreid is a petty criminal that gets caught in a murder spree right before the flu breaks. Flagg rescues him from prison and makes Lloyd his right-hand man. Given his recent run as a villain in Sleepy Hollow, Cho clearly can play bad. Also, it would be great if the film adaptation could not only break convention by having a male character played by an actress like Mirren but also to have a criminal played by an Asian-American actor. Stereotypes have to be broken somewhere.
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Bolshoi ballet boss Sergei Filin broke down in a Russian court on Wednesday (06Nov13) as he described the "terrifying pain" he suffered in January (13) when acid was thrown in his face in a brutal attack. The artistic director of the famed Bolshoi Theatre testified about the scary incident for the first time on Wednesday (06Nov13) as part of the criminal trial of Pavel Dmitrichenko, who is accused of masterminding the assault which left Filin partially blind.
Growing emotional, he told the Moscow court, "I immediately felt very strong pain. My eyes dimmed. I have never felt such pain in my life. I wouldn't like to speak of how I was falling, crawling in the dirt...
"I will not forgive anybody for what happened. That is very important... The life of all the people around me changed. I lost my eyes, I cannot see my children."
He went on to discuss the bitter backstage rivalries that erupted within the famed theatre troupe, which allegedly prompted dancer Dmitrichenko to collude with two jobless accomplices, Yuri Zarutsky and Andrei Lipatov, to attack Filin on the streets of Moscow.
Filin claimed the main suspect had clashed with him over artistic differences and falsely accused him of showing favouritism to ballerinas he was alleged to have had affairs with, making his life a misery.
He said, "Pavel did everything possible to compromise me in any possible way... The main reason (for the attack) was envy. Very, very strong enmity and even hatred. I still cannot believe it."
Dmitrichenko, who has maintained his innocence, used the opportunity to apologise for the emotional pain Filin had suffered, but insisted he had nothing to do with the attack.
He told Filin, "I want you to know that I asked nobody for what happened to you and I knew nothing of it."
The three men each face up to 12 years behind bars if convicted of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm.
The trial continues.

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Mark Pellegrino (Lost, Supernatural) is back at it again. Landing his role as Dr. Jedikiah Price on The CW’s Tomorrow People, Pellegrino tells Hollywood.com exclusively about his new character as well as a recap on the other bad boys he’s previously played.
Can you tell us a little about your character in The Tomorrow People?
What makes the role unique for me is the mind of Jedikiah: The fanatic's mind. The mind so devoted to one purpose and so assured of the righteousness of that purpose that he will stop at nothing and sacrifice almost anything to attain it.
Do you see this character as good or bad?
I never view my characters as bad (unless the character views himself that way) because I feel that objectifies him and makes him an intellectual construct and not a living person. In this case, I think what Roger Price says in the pilot may be apropos for Jedikiah (and I paraphrase) 'don't believe everything you see'. Jed makes a hard first impression, but there is definitely more there than meets the eye. Stay tuned.
You have played quite a few ‘bad’ men. Revolution, Supernatural, Dexter, Being Human. Is there something that draws you to these roles?
Well I'm not a writer, but it seems to me that the 'bad guy' drives the story. Without him or her, the hero would never be challenged and would probably never realize his or her potential as a hero. So, in terms of story, I like being the engine.
We can’t avoid asking about Lost. How did it feel to be a part of that cast?
It felt great to be a part of television history and to work with such a talented group of people.
I never watched the show before I was cast. Ha. And after I was cast I was afraid to. I think because I didn't want to come into it with any preconceived notions. I thought that over thinking it would make it less pliable. Odd right? For a guy who loves to rehearse and do tons of homework, I begged off of that for Lost and opted to be as open to the moment as possible. In any event it kind of worked. Jacob had a deep innocence to him, and I think the openness lent itself to that.
What’s next for you?
I did a little film that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and by all accounts is doing very well. It's called We Gotta Get Out of This Place. And then there's The Tomorrow People. I hope that sticks around for a very long time.
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Samuel L. Jackson has hinted he lost his innocence at 11 in a candid new magazine interview. The Pulp Fiction star tells Playboy magazine he became a man while vacationing on a relative's farm in Georgia.
He says, "There was a family of girls who lived through the woods from us, and we all used to meet at this creek and swim naked. I was about 10 or 11. I think two of the girls were about 14, 15, so that's when it happened.
"Girls were interesting to me, period. They could be fat, skinny, tall, short, ugly, beautiful - as long as they were willing to do that thing."

Hugh Jackman's actress wife Deborra-Lee Furness is calling for change in global adoption laws so more abandoned children can find loving parents and homes. Furness, who serves as executive director of the Worldwide Orphans Foundation in her native Australia, has penned an opinion piece for CNN.com, detailing her frustration at the "global orphan crisis".
She notes that there are an estimated 151 million kids in the world who have lost at least one parent, according to official figures from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and she can't understand why local authorities make it so difficult for adults to adopt.
Furness, who has two adopted kids with Jackman, admits she was first drawn to become the "voice" of the issue Down Under in 2007, after hearing the frustrations of fellow Aussies who had been waiting as long as 10 years to adopt.
In the article, she writes, "It's a no brainer for me: You have loving families wanting to care for these kids and kids that desperately need a loving home. We just have to work out a way to put these two together."
She goes on to warn adoption officials about the dangers posed to orphans if nothing is done to find them permanent homes: "In my mind one of the greatest crimes of humanity is to take away the innocence of a child, and this is in essence what we are doing if we do not step up and take a look at what is happening to abandoned children all over the world.
"These kids have literally no self-esteem, they are depressed and without hope and often in extreme danger of exploitation and abuse...
"Many are caught in the foster care system, whereby they are always vulnerable to being moved from family to family and never have a sense of belonging. The lack of permanency for these kids has a huge effect on their safety and security. Sadly, the trajectory for many kids who age out of the foster care system is homelessness, crime, drugs and incarceration, to name a few of the horrors. These kids are stuck, because governments cannot work out how to parent them."
Furness' article has won her praise from her actor husband - sharing a link to the piece with his Twitter.com followers, he writes, "So proud of my wife! Amazing OpEd piece by Deb".

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Oh how far Walt has come. Or rather, how much he has lost. Somehow the standard Breaking Bad description of him as a Mr. Chips who becomes Scarface seems woefully inadequate at this point. The devastation he has unleashed is unfathomable: Hank and Gomez are dead, Jesse’s being tortured and likely will be killed, Walt Jr.’s innocence has been shattered, and he’s lost his family…probably forever. There’s no going back now. And it all makes us wonder when he reached the point of no return, when he, like Macbeth, waded so far into a river of blood that he could only emerge by getting drenched in it. “Ozymandias” was one of the most harrowing, profoundly disturbing hours of television I’ve ever seen, in part because all of the decisions that led to its orgy of violence were made so very long ago.
“Ozymandias” began with a flashback to Walt’s first cook at To’hajilee, a little over a year earlier. With hair and a mustache, and no pants of course, he really had to rehearse his excuse to Skyler for why he’d be late — some cockamamie story about car wash owner Bogdan wanting him to go over receipts. Lying didn’t come as easy then. And it seemed as if at this point Walt really was focused on his family, agreeing to pick up a couple pizzas for dinner and thinking about Holly as a potential name for the baby. Jesse was still the bad one, the junkie burnout who might actually have lit up inside the meth lab if it weren’t for Walt’s warning. They’ve since traveled on completely opposite paths, which somehow still led both of them back to To’hajilee, where it all started.
Back in the present, the shootout came to a quick end. Walt’s Neo-Nazi allies had killed Gomez and cornered Hank, despite Walt’s frantic cries to call them off. He made a last-minute gamble at redemption: he’d give Jack his $80 million in exchange for Hank’s life. But Hank wouldn’t beg for his life, and he didn’t want Walt to either: “You’re the smartest man I’ve ever known, and yet you’re too stupid to know he made up his mind 10 minutes ago.”
Jack put a bullet in Hank’s brain.
Walt knew it was over. His family was broken. There was no going back. Everything he had ostensibly done all this for was lost. He lay on the New Mexico sand in agony as Jack and his gang took his money anyway. All except for one barrel that they left for him with about $10-15 million in it, because these Nazis have a code, I guess. But Walt wasn’t finished. “Pinkman,” he said to Jack. “Pinkman.” They still hadn’t killed Jesse, and Walt knew exactly where he was: hiding under a car. They grabbed him and promised to pop a cap in his ass after they tortured him to find out exactly what he’d told the Feds. Walt began the torture on his own, though. He finally told Jesse the truth: he let Jane die. He watched her choke on her own vomit, when he could have saved her. That was probably the moment of no return for Walt, really. Jesse was speechless. There was no time for a frantically shouted “bitch” or anything — he’s beyond words at this point.
Walt left, but his Chrysler ran out of gas, so he rolled his barrel of money to a Native American’s shed and offered him a wad of cash to buy his ancient pick-up truck. Marie went to the car wash to tell Skyler what had happened: Hank had arrested Walt. It was over. This Shakespearean scenario — characters acting on information that’s horribly out of date — led to the moment the whole series has been building toward: Walt Jr. finding out his father is a murderous drug lord. Marie demanded that Skyler tell her son the truth, rather than have him hear about it from men in uniform. So they sat him down and told him everything. He recognized right off the bat that his mother is a liar. Either she was lying to him before or she’s lying to him now. No matter what, she deceived him, covered for Walt’s crimes, and probably bears some responsibility for them too. Or as Walt Jr. put it, “If all this is true and you knew about it, then you’re as bad as him.”
Skyler and Walt Jr. went back to their house and saw the mysterious, dented pick-up truck in their driveway: never a good sign. Walt was there, packing super fast to get out of Dodge. But his son wanted answers. Walt wouldn’t give them to him, instead saying that they need to get out of there and go somewhere where they can start a new life together. Totally delusional. Skyler realized what all this must mean for Hank. He must be dead. Walt said he tried to save him, but that meant nothing. Skyler could either grab the phone or the knife, and she chose the knife. She cut his hand, but Walt couldn’t leave it there. He struggled with her for the knife, until Walt Jr. finally intervened and helped his mom. He picked up the phone, called the police, and said that his dad pulled a knife on his mom. Somehow, I think he’ll want to be called Flynn exclusively after this.
Walt took Baby Holly and left. Because apparently that’s what people do when they want to hurt Skyler: take the baby! Or maybe that Internet theory about Walt assuming the traits of his victims wasn’t fully accurate. Maybe he also absorbs the traits of his victims’ spouses as well.
The police arrived at Casa White, and while they were there, Walt called Skyler and gave an incredible rant. It was a confession, yes, but like his previous confession that implicated Hank it altered the truth. This time, though, it was to take the blame entirely on himself and leave no room for Skyler to be implicated — since he obviously knew the police would be listening in. His rage toward Skyler was the only thing really truthful in what he was saying. He was ranting stuff like “I did all of this for you, and you never listened to me, I had to do it all alone!” And he took Baby Holly for good measure to just to emphasize to the cops the complete and total rift between him and his wife that means she was never his partner in crime. Once his goal had been achieved, he deposited Holly at a fire station and took off. He would do what Jesse refused to do: get a new life courtesy of Jim Beaver and head to the “Granite State,” the title of next week’s episode — New Hampshire.
Was that a harrowing hour of television or what?
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After sinking our teeth into 12 mouthwateringly delectable courses, we finally arrived at Hannibal's "Savoureux" on Thursday. As promised, the NBC drama's Season 1 finale featured a face-off between Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and Hannibal Lector (Mads Mikkelsen), but perhaps not in the way viewers had expected.
In Network television, the good guys are practically guaranteed to come out on top (on cable channels, not so much — just ask the Stark family), so Thursday's cliffhanger ending came as a shock. This isn't HBO, it's NBC, so why is Will the one stuck behind bars while Hannibal smirks from the outside? Because Hannibal is not afraid to take chances.
While Hannibal's first season was nowhere near perfect — I was often frustrated by the way it would stray from plot lines for episodes at a time while pursuing less interesting tangential stories (such as Franklin's thread) — it consistently pushed the boundaries of Network television, both in terms of style and substance. And ultimately, as we saw in the penultimate and finale episodes, all those frustrating loose ends were tied together — if not yet tied up — in a satisfying, fascinating way.
By the end of the finale, as we cut away from the chilling callback shot to The Silence of the Lambs, it's clear that Season 2 will be a whole different monster from Season 1. Will finally has control over his facilities once again, but now (in my least favorite trope) he will have to prove his sanity and innocence while the evidence stacked against him. Showrunner Bryan Fuller told E! News, "We saw the character as such a victim in the first season. Now Will Graham who has lost everything and has nothing left to lose is going to be a much scrappier, bolder main character in season two." Personally, I can't wait.
But while events came together nicely, that's not to say there were resolved. Looking ahead to Season 2, here are our lingering questions:
1. First and foremost, how much is known about Will's brain disease? It's clear that Alana discovered his brain swelling, but we don't yet know the full extent of its effect on Will.
2. What exactly is going on with Hannibal and his psychiatrist, Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier (Gillian Anderson)? The two of them like to dance around the "attack" made on Dr. Du Maurier by a former patient, but things in that department seem sketchy. What precisely did she mean when she said her former patient "swallowed his tongue"? And this may be overreaching, but when Hannibal and Dr. Du Maurier discussed their "veal" dinner it seemed to me like she was hip to the fact that Hannibal favors more verboten cuts of meat.
3. Fuller tells E! News, "[Will] vomited up that ear. He was feeling nauseous and took his medicine and then couldn't keep it down, and then everything else in his stomach came up and that everything else was Abigail Hobbs' ear." So then, how did the ear get inside his stomach? Was Hannibal able to feed him during one of his episodes?
4. On that note, how often is Hannibal lurking around Will's home? We saw Hannibal futz with Will's lures once, but the FBI found lures for all five of the Copycat Killer's victims. Was Hannibal surreptitiously planting the lures during his house calls with Will, or was he lurking around more than the audience — or Will — knew?
5. What happened to Jack Crawford's wife? After the episode that focused on her cancer diagnoses we never saw her again. Is she okay? Is her marriage with Jack okay? I liked her, I'd like to see more of her.
6. Do we know what happened to the rest of Mirium Lass? Does Hannibal still have her body stashed somewhere, ready to trot out once again should that be necessary?
Any other questions Hannibal left unanswered? Sound off in the comments!
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THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM THE SEASON FINALE OF ARROW
With the city crumbling and going down in flames, the most moral character dying a hero’s death, and Oliver failing in the most important mission of his life, the first season of Arrow ended with a bang… and a heartbreaking whimper.
That’s right, while everyone and their mother had a theory on who the big death on the Arrow finale was going to be – from Thea, to Det. Lance, to Laurel, to Moira, to Malcolm – no one predicted that the pure-hearted, noble, all-around good guy Tommy Merlyn would be the one to die in "Sacrifice." And the last line spoken of the season foreshadows a very dark Season 2 ahead: as Oliver watched Tommy take his last breath, he pleaded, with tears streaming down his face, "Open your eyes, Tommy… open your eyes."
Alas, Tommy's eye's won't open ever again on Arrow, and we all must come to terms with the fact that Colin Donnell will not be gracing our TV screens each week anymore. Excuse me, I think I have something in my eye... Nope, just tears. Lots and lots of tears.
Tommy’s death, the destruction of The Glades, and so many other major events occurred that made the finale feel more like a cinematic full-length feature film instead of just a single episode of television. The epic tone and dark endings for all characters call for a different kind of recap. So instead of my usual Arrow recap, I will focus on what each of the characters sacrificed… because as the name of the finale suggests, everyone made a sacrifice in one way or another. Some even had deadly consequences.
TommyTommy made the ultimate sacrifice: his life. He knew that Laurel would not have left CNRI even after being warned about the upcoming earthquake, so he rushed into the crumbling building to free her from the rubble, while confessing his love for her despite the fact that she was back together with Oliver. She made it safely out, but Tommy got caught as the building collapsed. Oliver made it in time to have one final conversation with him before he bled out thanks to the giant piece of metal sticking through his chest.
Det. LanceDet. Lance sacrificed his job to alert the police about The Undertaking, revealing that he has been in contact with the vigilante for months. He even told his boss that he helped/was helped by the vigilante in numerous cases, accidentally revealing he hasn’t been working as hard as he could to bring the vigilante in. He knows it’s worth it to reveal all this to his colleagues if it means saving all the people in The Glades. But all he got was a suspension from his job.
Lance also sacrificed his own personal safety – and his personal feelings and opinions by working with Felicity and the vigilante – by venturing down into the subway tracks to dismantle the Markov device. If only Malcolm hadn’t been so devious as to have a second device programmed too, then Det. Lance would have successfully saved Starling City.
MoiraMoira sacrificed her freedom and her children’s respect by holding a press conference to reveal to all of Starling City what Malcolm was planning and that she was complicit in The Undertaking to save her family. Thea couldn’t even look at her after her confession, since her mother just admitted to attempting to kill her boyfriend who lives in The Glades.
OliverOliver sacrificed his mother’s ignorant bliss by revealing to her that Robert actually survived the Queen’s Gambit shipwreck, only to take his own life via bullet to the head days later in the life raft so Oliver would have enough food to survive, make it home, and right all his wrongs. It was this confession that propelled Moira to realize that she couldn’t let Robert’s death be in vain, so she held the press conference to try and give everyone in The Glades advance warning to evacuate.
Oliver also sacrificed his friendship with Tommy to tell him the horrible truth about Malcolm’s plans, in order to open his eyes and try to get him back on the good side. When Tommy was dying, though, Oliver spared him the truth that he killed Malcolm so he could die a little happier.
Oliver also maybe, probably sacrificed his relationship with Laurel, since he warned her about staying out of The Glades before Moira held her press conference. She’s going to wonder how he knew something was going down in the first place, and something tells me he won’t want to let her in on the Arrow secret. That means more lies, and not a happy ending for Laurel/Oliver. Also, he sacrificed his own health and well being by stabbing Malcolm through his own chest with an arrow! Talk about an archer shish kabob!
MalcolmMalcolm sacrificed his son’s innocence by playing Tommy the voicemail his mother left as she was dying. While Malcolm hoped that would convince Tommy that The Undertaking was the right thing to do, it backfired and Tommy ended up pulling a gun on Malcolm. Malcolm just knocked Tommy out, but he lost his son’s respect.
RoyRoy sacrificed his own safety to help those who needed it in The Glades. Taking out muggers, saving people trapped in a bus… turns out, he didn’t need to meet the vigilante face to face in order to become a better person. He had it in him all along!
TheaThea sacrificed her own safety to find Roy and make sure he was safe during The Undertaking. She even took out his would-be shooter with a broken bottle over the head! Go Speedy!
The best quotes from "Sacrifice":
Diggle: I take back every joke I made about you sticking a tracking device in your boot.
Det. Lance: Please, take a seat.Felicity: You know, I think I’ll stand… [Lance slams the door, Felicity promptly sits]Det. Lance: You’re not exactly a hardened criminal, are you?Felicity: No, I’m not any kind of criminal.Det. Lance: Well, then what do you call computer hacking?Felicity: A hobby? That I do not engage in.
Tommy, to Oliver: I wish you would have died on that island.
Tommy, to Malcolm: He said you wanted to nuke The Glades or something. It’s funny, scotch doesn’t make it sound any more believable. Maybe after your jihad we could grab some steaks!
Oliver: I’m out of bows.Diggle: I’ve got my gun.
Slade: I should have figured you couldn’t save the day without making a mess.
Thea: I went to your house!Roy: Yeah, I figured I would run for my life along with everyone else.
Malcolm: If I learned anything as a successful businessman, it’s redundancy.
Oliver: It should have been me! Open your eyes, Tommy. Open your eyes.
And there you have it, folks! Season 1 of Arrow is officially done. See you in the fall!
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The Carrie Diaries may be on the bubble — the jury's still out on whether the Sex and the City prequel will return to The CW for Season 2 — but executive producer Amy B. Harris is already planning what adventures young Carrie Bradshaw and her Castleberry High pals will stumble into during a steamy New York summer.
Although the finale left plenty of open ends, it could certainly suffice as a series finale. (In case you need a quick catch-up: Carrie and Sebastian broke up again; Walt officially came out; Dorrit and Miller had sex; Sebastian and Maggie hooked up; Walt and Bennet kissed but didn't actually get together thanks to Walt's jailbait status; somehow Carrie convinced Papa Bradshaw to let her live in Larissa's loft while she spends her summer answering phones at Interview.)
But that doesn't mean it should be the end of The CW's best new show.
Harris is "optimistic" about a second season of her delightful dramedy, especially since it's the network's second most popular streaming show (behind the already-renewed The Vampire Diaries). That's why she tore apart most of the gang's relationships in the finale instead of letting everyone live happily ever after. "I keep describing [Season 1] as the age of innocence, and then sort of lost," Harris tells Hollywood.com and a small group of reporters who gathered to screen the penultimate episode of her show. "The fun of it for Season 2 is [seeing what transpires] after those moments have happened and you've had some betrays and hurt along the way."
So, should the show return, we'll see "fun, organic ways of keeping New York as a big presence for all of [the show's main characters," Harris says. "Hot, steamy New York summers mixed with the country club of Castleberry."
Plus, Harris teases, "We're excited about the idea of starting to introduce some other people from the Sex and the City world into the [Carrie Diaries world] for Season 2."
Of course, a second season will still mainly focus on our budding writer as she heads into another year of high school while juggling her too-cool-for-school foray into the fashion world. "Part of [Carrie's] journey for the second season is — you know, she’s still a high school student too, so how much is she missing at home versus New York?" Harris says.
What did you think of The Carrie Diaries finale? Will you be devastated if this is the end, or was it a satisfying conclusion to each character's story?
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Well that was certainly unexpected. When the kind folks behind The Walking Dead promised 27 deaths during Sunday's finale, I (and probably, all of you) was picturing utter mayhem. Baby Asskicker dying in Carol's bloody arms. Beth singing Tom Waits as she was slowly drained of life from her bullet wounds. Maggie shooting herself because she couldn't live without Glenn, who had been decapitated by Martinez. Rick and the Governor standing in the street for a high noon showdown, which only one would survive. You know, the usual stuff. Instead, we saw the mental deterioration of one character, and the death of another character that any reader of Robert Kirkman's comics certainly never saw coming. [WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD]
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So, Andrea died. Andrea — being one of the comics' most popular and long-running characters — just never quite "made it" on this show. She had, essentially, everything it took to become a beloved member of the team. Guts. Strength. Determination. Shiny hair. But the writers just never seemed to know what to do with her. When she wasn't whining about not having enough pull in the group, she was sleeping with and/or pining over the wrong guy. It was frustrating, and instead of turning her around, they listened to the fans and killed her.
But I will not crucify TWD's writers in this recap, because her death was pretty damn spectacular. She didn't die in a bizarre blaze of glory like Merle, but her ticking time bomb death with Milton — which was, let's face it, something right out of a Saw movie — was absolutely horrifying. The Governor delivered a fatal blow to Milton in the first few minutes, then gave him (and Andrea) his final farewell: "You're gonna die, and you're gonna tear the flesh from her bones." He locked her in a room with her own death. So she could know it. For hours.
As Milton faded, he asked Andrea — who, as my colleague pointed out, should really have tried multitasking as she chatted and considered her own doom — why she didn't go back to her friends once she found out that they were alive. "Well," she explained. "The Governor has a really huge penis." That's not actually what she said, but I'm sure that she spent her final moments feeling preettttyyyy stupid over that decision she made a few weeks ago, when she thought that she could change Woodbury for the better so she stuck around, even though she was dating this world's most obvious psychopath. She saw the zombie heads in the tanks and the weird pit-fights, and still didn't run away. I have a hard time believing that any human woman (with a law degree!) could be this stupid.
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And Milton, being a kindly fellow, pointed out that there was a pair of pliers on the ground — he had dropped the Governor's unused tools on the ground before the Governor stabbed him, and hidden this fact from his captor. If Andrea could move her foot just so, she could grab them with her pedicured toes and free herself, then stab Milton in the head before he turned. She finally did it after some fumbling, but it was way too late. In my humble opinion, she could have tried a whole lot harder. Remember a few months back, when Glenn killed a Walker with his hands tied behind his back? Andrea just… stayed Andrea till the very end. She just was never quite good enough.
So, yeah. The Governor, that Martinez everyone is talking about, and basically everyone else in Woodbury besides Tyreese and Sasha (who explained that they would fight the dead, not the living) raided the prison with a s**t ton of automatics and a thirst for blood. But like — nothing really happened. The Grimes Gang had booby trapped the place with Walkers, and all the Governor managed to do was blow up their watch towers and explode some of the Walkers that were surrounding the place, which was actually sort of a favor for the Gang of Grimes. So — thanks? This was the best well-executed bloodless defense plan ever. The gory, devestating shootout we were anticipating just never happend.
Instead, our main drama at Camp Grimes was the moral degradation of Carl Grimes. Before the Governor raided, Carl took a final look at his family picture and his father's badge and said, "Screw the noble path. I'm going to embrace a life of crime!" Since putting trust in others had had tragic results in the past — they trusted that prisoner and he ended up unleashing Walkers that ultimately killed Lori, and didn't kill the Governor and he ended up killing Merle — so, Carl was just going to kill everyone from now on. I guess he was snoozing during Rick's inspiring morality speech last week.
He ended up killing a left behind member of the Governor's failed militia. The kid was handing over his gun, and Carl shot him right in the head in front of a horrified Hershel. This, of course, came right around the time when Rick proudly told Michonne (who forgave him for almost giving her up, because she's awesome now) that it was Carl who displayed his burgeoning maturity by allowing her into the group.
So I guess Carl is going to be next Governor now — and we're going to spend at least a season dealing with Rick emotionally grappling with Carl's lost innocence as he becomes this hardened, brutal solider. The thing is though, that kid did look mighty suspicious as he handed over that gun. If he had dropped it and Carl had shot him, I would be quicker to condemn him for his actions. He's seen a lot of people die due to mercy and/or indecision, so he acted on instinct. He's adapting to the world around him, which is making him a not so great person, but a good soldier. He's at war, and he's acting like it.
The Governor, bee tee dubs, responded to his failure by massacring the entire Woodbury army (minus one pretty curly haired lady who played dead) except for Martinez and one other beefy dude. They drove off into the sunset, and I'm still not sure how I feel about this. We've spent an entire season waiting for this showdown. Why didn't it happen? I get that TV is a different medium than comic books, and that we as an audience are more attached to these on-screen characters than their page counterparts, so killing too many of them at one time could alienate TWD's audience. Still, we all really wanted, and were waiting with great anticipation for, an epic battle. And now the Governor just... gave up? When will we see him again?
Now, with (Glen Mazzara and his vision for the show) exiting Season 4 with the Governor still alive, I just have absolutely no clue where we're headed. I'd love to see the Grimes Gang manage to get more than 10 miles away from where they started two years ago, which could be a potential blank slate fresh start for the new showrunner Scott Gimple. I'd also love less episodes weighed down by tiresome trips into Rick's psychosis. Like, on Breaking Bad, we don't get entire episodes where Walt sees the ghosts of the bodies he's responsible and loses his s**t ("Fly"is an excellent example of a protagonist losing his mind episode — Walter was compelling and terrifying) and on Game of Thrones when someone kills someone, we don't spend the next episode watching them deal with the emotional aftermath.
But, anyway. Moving on. Andrea's death was touching, but, really, that was only because of Michonne. Daryl, Rick, and Michonne — you know, The A-Team — went in to raid Woodbury, but there was nothing left to raid. The fighters had all been massacred, and since they had rescued the pretty curly haired lady who vouched for them, Tyreese and Sasha let them through. They found Andrea and Milton — who had been successfully put down by his victim — minutes too late. She had a nasty Walker-hickey on her neck, and was getting ready to shoot herself with a gun that no one would have let her use back in Season 1.
Now, this death wasn't particularly heartbreaking because of Andrea herself, since, as I said earlier, the show never figured out what to do with her and not many will be devestated to see her go. It worked because of Michonne's touching reaction — she cried, and sat with her friend till the very ugly end. Michonne right now is like the antithesis of Andrea — I'm extremely impressed with what they've done with Michonne, who was nothing but a scowly nonentity with a cool sword until "Clear," when she became oddly likable. Now she's like my favorite person to watch besides Daryl, who maybe I shouldn't count because I find him to be extremely sexually attractive and that clouds my judgment.
So, here we are: other than Carl's innocence, Andrea, Milton, the Governor, and the people he mercilessly slaughtered, everyone made it through. The 27 promised dead bodies were not our friends (unless you count Andrea), they were of mainly faceless strangers. The newly Lori-free (I think?) Rick Grimes welcomed the remaining Woodbury-ians into the prison, so it looks like we're in for tons of random zombie-bait B characters next season, and a location change is seeming less likely.
But I'm perplexed, kids. I could be wrong. Where do you think they're going with this? Do you want the Governor to be a major part of next season, or are you hoping for a totally new game? Are you sad to see Andrea go? Also, do you have a good therapist you could recommend for Carl? Shout it out in the comments, and I'll see you next fall! (Unless you also watch Game of Thrones, in which case, see you next Sunday.)
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